IV 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 664 

Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt 

of Congress. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 10, 2014 

Mr. STOCKMAN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Rules 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the 

charge of contempt of Congress. 

Whereas Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, has been found to be in 

contempt of Congress for willfully and intentionally refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena duly issued 

by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 

thereby obstructing the Congress in the lawful exercise of 

its constitutionally mandated legislative powers; 

Whereas such behavior is an insult to the dignity of the 

House of Representatives, an attack upon the integrity of 

its proceedings, works violence upon the rights of the 

House collectively, and therefore implicates the long-recognized inherent power of the House to punish and commit for contempt, privileged under the Constitution; 

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Whereas recent history with similarly contumacious and insolent witnesses such as Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, 

strongly suggests that the present statutory judicial rubric set up to punish and reform such insubordinate and 

obstructionist witnesses would be ineffective in this case, 

as it is likely that the U.S. Attorney for the District of 

Columbia would refuse to perform his lawful duty to 

bring the offending contemnor Lerner before a Grand 

Jury and prosecute the same for her misconduct pursuant to section 104 of the Revised Statutes of the United 

States (2 U.S.C. 194) and section 102 of the Revised 

Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 192); 

Whereas the executive and judicial branches’ prolonged and 

dawdling failure to prosecute Attorney General Holder’s 

insolent contempt of the 112th Congress strongly suggests that a like proceeding against contemnor Lerner 

would be similarly futile, and the threat of such prosecution has clearly been insufficient to encourage contemnor 

Lerner to be honest and candid with the Congress regarding the heinous actions of the Internal Revenue Service: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Speaker issue his warrant, di2 rected to the Sergeant-at-Arms, or his deputy, com3 manding him to arrest and take into custody forthwith, 

4 wherever to be found, the body of Lois G. Lerner, and 

5 bring her to the bar of the House without delay to answer 

6 to the charge of contempt of its authority, breach of its 

7 privileges, and gross and wanton insult to the integrity 

8 of its proceedings, and in the meantime keep the body of 

9 Lerner in his custody in the common jail of the District 

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1 of Columbia, subject to the further order of the House. 

2 While in custody, Lerner shall enjoy no special privileges 

3 beyond those extended to her fellow inmates, shall not ac4 cess any computer or telephone, and shall not be visited 

5 by anyone other than her counsel, clergy, physician, or 

6 family. 

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